Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 19, 2016 CategoriesLinguisticsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __tedited, abstract concepts, abstract thought, animal intelligence, grammar, human intelligence, language, learning, signals Here’s How We Could Know if Animals Use Language Michael Egnor July 19, 2016 Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind 4 Perhaps, some critics will argue, animals have language that we haven't detected. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 18, 2016 CategoriesLinguisticsNeuroscience & MindZoology Tagged , __tedited, abstract concepts, animal communication, animal languages, bird vocalizations, complex structures, complexity, designators, finches, functional complexity, functional specificity, grammar, human language, language, metaphysical, Nature, signal Are Birdsongs Language? Michael Egnor July 18, 2016 Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology 7 Atheist mathematician Jeff Shallit insists that animals have language. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 17, 2016 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , __k-review, Nature, Research How Could We Know if Animals Can Think Abstractly? Michael Egnor July 17, 2016 Evolution 1 I have laid out in previous posts the evidence that animals are not capable of abstract thought. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 15, 2016 CategoriesLinguisticsNeuroscience & MindZoology Tagged , __tedited, abstract thought, animal intelligence, animal personhood, common sense, David Hume, human intelligence, Jeffrey Shallit, language, Nature David Hume Notwithstanding, Abstract Thought in Animals Is a Myth Michael Egnor July 15, 2016 Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology 6 Abstract thought in animals is a cultural myth at the heart of the Darwinian understanding of man. Read More ›
inexperienced-painter-painted-having-problems-the-concept-of-221681715-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 14, 2016 CategoriesMetaphysicsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __nedited, aboutness, Cartesian dualism, consciousness, David Chalmers, dualism, hard problem of consciousness, hylomorphism, intentionality, materialism, mind, neuroscience, Reductionism, René Descartes, self-awareness, sensations, Thomism What Is Consciousness? Michael Egnor July 14, 2016 Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind 7 René Descartes in the 17th century created the Hard Problem of consciousness, out of whole cloth. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 12, 2016 CategoriesLinguisticsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __tedited, abstract concepts, abstract thought, animal languages, designators, ethology, human language, language, mimicry, semantic information, signal Do Animals Have Language? Michael Egnor July 12, 2016 Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind 7 Some animals, after sufficient training by human researchers, use signals that mimic language. But mimicry is not language itself. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 11, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesNeuroscience & MindPhilosophy Tagged , __tedited, brain processes, computation, computational processing, consciousness, intentionality, machine cognition, machine metaphor, meaninglessness, methodological materialism, mind-brain problem, self-awareness Your Deluded Brain Thinks It’s Conscious! Michael Egnor July 11, 2016 Computational Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy 6 Nonsense in neuroscience is a deep well. This is just in from Princeton's Michael Graziano. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 9, 2016 CategoriesPhilosophyScience Tagged , __edited, __tedited, abstract concepts, abstract reasoning, abstract thought, animal intelligence, animal languages, causality, human exceptionalism, human mind, human nature, language, logic, Nature Genetics, universals Is Your Cat Logical? Michael Egnor July 9, 2016 Philosophy, Science 6 Goodness gracious, this stuff never stops. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date June 23, 2016 CategoriesFaith & SciencePhilosophyScientific Reasoning Tagged , __tedited, accountability, atheism, begging the question, causality, circular causality, cosmic beginning, deism, empiricism, God Hypothesis, intelligent agency, motivated reasoning, natural evil, rationality, scientific debate, teleology, theism The Rowe-Grayling Debate Michael Egnor June 23, 2016 Faith & Science, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning 7 Grayling's problem is not merely his frank incompetence in open debate (you can understand his penchant for censorship). Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date May 3, 2016 CategoriesHuman Origins and AnthropologyNeuroscience & MindPsychology Tagged , __tedited, abstract thinking, choices, determinism, fallacy, free will, human mind, human responsibilities, illusions, mind-brain debate, natural causes, people, self Is Free Will Just "Your Brain Tricking Itself"? Michael Egnor May 3, 2016 Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology 5 When scientists propose a really inane explanation for a mundane observation, evolutionary psychology is likely the discipline invoked. Read More ›
